betting on both and a true north race wall street picks up the bill as obama and romney burned through hundreds of millions of dollars hoping to buy a friend who took president. never ending violence and serious threats and more challenges for special envoy lakhdar brahimi is in moscow for talks after the holiday truce he proposed to immediately collapse. and plans for a mega mosque in london and see even some muslims in opposition they fear the real goal of the group in the project is to incite radical ideas in the community.

it's twelve noon in moscow this is r g coming to you live on news now away with our top story though hurricane sandy is still only approaching the u.s. it's already wreaking havoc in the presidential race candidates have been forced to flee its path and abandon campaign events in the area but in the meantime we're continuing our special coverage on the most expensive election in u.s. history and as our. reports now on where all that money's pouring in from. as our tees up close u.s. alexion coverage continues this week we turn our attention to domestic issues concerning voters now u.s. presidents have historically referred to america as an exceptional nation a land of opportunity where one can work hard and over time climb the proverbial economic ladder but one year ago that myth was boston when occupy wall street activists camped out here in sukiyaki park if you. i nationwide grassroots movement

protesting corporate greed wealth inequality and in a world middle class today the fact is the us gap between rich and poor has never been wider and unprecedented amount of americans are sliding down the proverbial ladder while the top one percent earning an average annual income of twenty four million dollars not to bet on both horses running in the nation's biggest political race. it's the most expensive political playoff in u.s. history a competition for the country's most powerful position one of the things i suspect governor romney and i probably agree on is let's come back to something the president i agree on no matter who wins the two thousand and twelve election. america's ninety nine percent movement will be left with a one percent president regardless of who we vote for wall street wins i mean

that's really one of the main messages is that when we're casting about we see that we have these corporations giving so much money to candidates and they can't be objective when it comes to the interests of the vast majority. of voters loving industries that ignited america's economic crisis real estate collapse job hemorrhage and foreclosure epidemic. is also on track to break campaign donation records for the two thousand and twelve presidential election each election cycle each four years that cost significantly more they did four years ago so running for president united states is now a half a billion dollar undertaking you need a half a billion dollars to credibly run for the president of united states and you're going to raise that from large corporations and wealthy individuals in the case of mitt romney wealth attracts wealth the republican candidate has a reported net worth of two hundred million dollars and according to the center for responsive politics the top eight financial contributors to romney's campaign are wall street. banks with employees from goldman sachs bank of america and morgan

stanley rounding out the top three. this is the buy the moment changes come to america five in two thousand and eight barack obama became the largest beneficiary of wall street backing in u.s. election history. receiving more than forty two million dollars from the finance insurance and real estate sectors it's hard to believe that smart rational guys and big companies with huge research departments and a real understanding of the society are going to give that much money and expect nothing in return so their donation is probably not a charity since becoming president obama's justice department hasn't prosecuted one person in connection to the two thousand and eight financial collapse on the other hand top executives from j.p. morgan chase citigroup and general electric were recruited to work in the white house what we have cemented into place is a system of legalized bribery public elected officials arnason corporate employees

you know the flagrant sort of corruption the ability of this small rapacious class of corporate oligarchy to write the laws write the legislation create a two tiered system this alternately is going to implode according to a two thousand and twelve harris poll the majority of americans see wall street executives as dishonest and overpaid with an overwhelming amount of citizens in support of tougher regulation. and overhaul the occupy wall street movement began championing last year as millions of americans flooded the streets. thousands facing brutal arrests. to protest wall street greed economic inequality and corporate influence over u.s. politics. as election day draws near occupy activists say both candidates have pander to their finance. donors and successfully ignored the biggest american

grassroots movement to be seen in decades we see little difference between the two parties they're both basically imperialist parties and i think that one thing that i can really do is expose how the democratic system as we have it right now is basically a sham the political system is so broken in so many ways that the reason that we continue to come out in the streets and raise you know ring the alarm bells around economic injustice and economic situation in our country is because you know people aren't doing their job millions of americans will soon be heading to the polls or lacking support for either major candidate but voting against the one they liked least however with wall street successfully cementing strong ties to both presidential runners some may wonder if the winner of this election has already been declared hurry up or not our team we are. well our coverage of the u.s. presidential campaign will continue on the air and online exploring some of the

most overlooked and outright ignored aspects of the race all the way up to the election will be exploring america's domestic policies and challenges and stay with archie ahead of the vote. want to know is that it. will the movement mobilize calls for a new america to stand for the going to nine percent us election a close go. to twenty ninth on our team. a four day ceasefire in the bloody syrian standoff officially runs out on monday this while state media points the finger at rebel from the terrorist groups accusing them of undermining the latest peace effort by the truce was proposed by u.n. and arab league envoy to syria lakhdar brahimi who is currently in moscow for talks artistic corpuscle golf is following his visit all the main purpose of this visit is to hunt for some fresh ideas because as this special envoy is there right he has

been trying to help resolve the crisis in syria for two months now but very little progress has been made if any at all the so-called cease fire which was reached for the course of the feast of sacrifice holidays and today and it didn't work since at least three blasts happened in different parts of syria including the largest one in denmark goes right on the first day of the cease fire at least five people were killed but the opposition claims it's much more than that to russia brought this issue up at the un security council but it couldn't agree even on a condemning statement meanwhile the rebels keep on pointing the finger at the government saying it broke the cease fire while damascus still claims that is battling well organized terrorist controlled from outside the country clearly there's still a long way before he sort of agreement could be reached at the you're united nations so this is definitely a good time for some new ideas from mr brahimi he said to meet with the russian foreign minister later on monday and of course bring you all the details of this meeting as it happens. well u.s.

based political analysts dr randy short says that elements inside syria are not the only ones responsible for the failure of that cease fire. well it shows set to back your city sixteen mistakes has no control over them and since step being supported by the saudis to change states united states and its nato allies they want to be assigned to she destroyed at any cost so and the rebels know. so why should they i mean anything and if you just speak at the debate between the dhamma and this month's just romney where you have these two t.d.'s of giants like heads of state trying to do everything they can to destroy the government in syria so. to t.c.'s not jail not on their side remember you can always go to our dot com to find more stories pictures analysis and much more as well as catch up on anything you've missed on there here's

a taste of what's lined up for you there right now france researchers turn to the ancient art of alchemy as gold prices soar thing they can turn water into the precious metal. and statewide identity theft of farm hackers steal three point six million social security numbers in the u.s. state of south carolina affecting three former presidents. out of the frying pan into the fire a humanitarian crisis for the residents who fled the libyan town of bani walid is looming as they've now found themselves stranded in the desert they're running out of fuel and food while the siege of the former bastion of the toppled regime continues the town of seeing civilians death and devastation for weeks with the pro-government militia vowing to clear the area of gadhafi loyalist now reports also suggest that the attackers are backed by mercenaries from turkey and cats are r.-g. caught up with libya's red cross representative who says people there are afraid of

further persecution. there are many displaced people who have been trying to get something with these either using the new routes but many others have been using visitors and found truth and have been stuck there as well because the roads there are no roads and so they are stuck because either they have no fuel anymore or for other reasons they are stranded in the desert me i worry that is also good their own stuff about their houses but it's like you know trying to stay moving quite some of them are trying to see us go to scottsdale to the city to go back as quickly as possible they want to go back to secure for us both they are of course talking about iran. and they are worried about the future of their cities. ukraine's political landscape faces unpredictable changes santa likes and simply the face of the country's new parliament in the hands of independent candidates and

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pushing china and russia as occupying. two parties still take their challenge this election. center fifth on our team. here with our team at live from moscow well in london and islam a group has intensified its bids to build europe's largest mosque in the eastern side of the city next to the olympic site publicly jamaat is also described as a separatist sect and two of the seventh of july bombers are believed to have prayed in their places of worship are jews probably boyko found out if there is ground for concern. four times bigger than some paul's cathedral

a mega mosque that will fit ten thousand people and it could be coming to london's east end if it gets the go ahead it's built the river in center will be the same size as london's looming battle surprise states and it would also be the biggest place of worship in the u.k. of any religion but critics have slammed the proposal saying that it would create a muslim dancer in the forces that are still working to bring the largest mosque the u.k. has ever seen interest revered architects planning consultants and glitzy p.r. teams all paid for by the organization behind the idea to match a group that's causing significant concern they teach that if you want a good muslim you must separate all from non muslim it's a matter of all. started over there is only to beat him out of all the islamic groups has created ghettos over in toronto you know in canada you go across the

philippines and see what they've done the philippines you're right there around the world it's a huge group and wherever they go they create barriers they create hostility they create division they create separatism with its unassuming name the riverine centre's website claims there's a demand for a new muslim place of worship in culturally diverse east london not that they're happy to talk about it it's representatives refused to speak to us when we approach the proposed site home to their current mosque it does not want to integrate that is counter to david cameron's policy of multiculturalism the grounds on which so trying to set up perry personally and a big way are anti british they are anti western but actually they're also anti worldly they're also world but this is not just going to be a mosque this is going to be a center of training and. which to reach out to islamicize muslims

to harden up and mediæval lies the islam of ordinary muslims in this country and i mean so many muslims don't want that british muslim campaigners told us the proposal should be blocked before it's too late the british government is walking a tightrope and the reason is this a lot of people oppose mosques. and due to summer folk and the british government doesn't want to be seen to be pandering to them rightly so however the problem here is that muslims themselves are opposing this mosque more on the grounds that they don't want to worship their god but on the grounds that women aren't allowed the local population of muslim population has no i'm a site on how the mosque itself is governed for some it's a misguided but widely held fear of offense which could see the center eventually get off the ground people are burying their heads in the sand and they're not

they're not prepared to sift out the good from the bad and poor thing by what it is i think that it will go through unless more people are prepared to look at it for what it actually is this is not anti muslim it is not anti most. it is anti this to develop all the local authority would say to us as you can confer you have received a planning application as this is currently being protested it would be inappropriate to comment here at this stage the matter is if this went ahead to be like a tipping point. that we know stopping fundamentalist islam if this one goes up well if that happens we all need to leave the country for the last one out please turn the lights off while the council ponders campaign as head of the religions say they hope the decision makers choose carefully just today let's set up shop in the british. boy k. t.

. but i'll take a look at some other stories from around the world the u.s. is bracing itself for was predicted to be one of the most fearsome storms the country has ever see hurricane sandy's stalking eastern coast threatening to menace the most populated corridor in the country mass evacuations have been ordered in new jersey thousands of flights have been grounded in new york authorities have shut down the subway all that amid fears that sandy could merge with winter weather fronts and evolved into a so-called franken storm. at least ten people have become victims of a suicide attack at a catholic church in northern nigeria the blast also wounded more than one hundred when an explosives laden car rammed the building during sunday mass sparked fears of surprisal attacks as the town has witnessed clashes between christians and muslims in the past no one claimed responsibility for the bombing the islamist sect vocal rom how was rumored to have had plans to attack. vote counting is underway

after ukraine's parliamentary election now exit poll so far so the ruling party is in the lead but opposition parties have more votes in total but the final picture looks like it will swing on aware of former boxing champion turned politician decides to put his party's wait. for a course. of the ruling party may have won this election in terms of the number of votes they've gained they won in the first place according to most of the exit polls but the combined votes combined seats of the opposition parties may eventually bring them the majority in the new ukrainian parliament and this could in fact spell big trouble for president bush because the opposition has been saying all along that one of its first decisions should gain a majority in the new parliament would be to impeach the president now the biggest intrigue which remains still is whether the party of the former heavyweight

champion boxing champion of the world. will be willing to join the opposition in the new coalition within the parliament because so far the score has been saying that he will not form the coalition with the ruling party but still he hasn't officially confirmed that he will be willing to make a new alliance of parties within the parliament with the opposition parties and the exit poll results they are based only on the proportional seats on the parties which were voted for him during this election but things may change when they count the votes for independent candidates which were also running and they will make up in fact the health of the parliament clearly the main talk will take place after the official results of the central actually commission come out and we are expecting it to happen somewhere in the next two or three days this will not happen on monday because there are about twenty million of votes to be counted so we are certainly waiting for all the figures and numbers to be updated from the central action commission and we will bring all the latest details and all the latest results as we get them. time now for the business news first rate. and hurricane

sandy affecting the world's major markets today. for the first time since september eleventh terrorist attacks that she and the new york stock exchange and the nasdaq have suspended all trading for monday and possibly beyond as well really as a safety measure because of the monster storm expected to hit new york now walkers of stack sound bags in lower manhattan while some brokerages really test contingency plans encouraging employees to work from home now the hurricane coming just days before the presidential election means that barack obama and mitt romney have been forced to counsel the cops lately campaign events so that really is the financial impacts of it all the european markets are now moving and shaking so let's see what's going on there and really taking their cue from the asian markets which were pretty lackluster all round we had the likes of honda dropping quite

dramatically there so as you can see the footsie around a four tenths of a cent for the dax just that we were the common currency exchanges then dropping it's really a bit this persistent euro zone worries still concerns with spain and greece right there if you look at the russian ruble you can see it's still losing out to the basket of currencies as you can see this check out the actually said here in moscow not much movement i must say actually they are indeed struggling for direction they remain firmly entrenched in their good to terry tuesday and to the afternoon session now russian telecom simple ready to quit some of its emerging market businesses financial times newspaper says the firm or so a number of its mobile phone operators in africa and asia and that's a focus on more mature markets such as russia and it's late both countries make up about seventy percent of the group's business. and they were doing stuff in dade. all right then so there isn't. the business but we're going to stay with.

financials and gold because all to talk to our political allies alsatian this doc goldstone to hear his thoughts on how europe and the u.s. could return to the pall of financial greit stay with us but our. news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china operation through the day. magine assets that the phone watches show every single

moment. and waiting for you to stumble. i saw a man with a video camera so i moved over and he followed me. you know we realized there were following everyone from early in the morning. as the only chance to get rid of him. is to reveal him. me. on our cheek. it. will.

place. just plain. do we speak your language or not at the. school music programs and documentaries in spanish matters to you breaking news a little tonnage of angola's kidneys stories. you hear say. that all teach spanish find out more visit. wealthier. that is something i. was going to.

market. i don't want really happening to the global economy with. no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. there's a report on our. thanks. to. jack goldstone a us writer around sociologist specializing in many things including global

population trends and also the cultural origins of economic growth it's great to have you with us here today thank you now even before the year were inception some skeptics were coming out and putting out arguments on why the euro wouldn't function and besides to economic arguments to were also saying the cultural differences were the huge problem between the different you states saying that labor habits are different spending and saving practices are different and many other reasons so how much of all of this is actually playing in to the economic and political divide that we're seeing right now in the european union the euro was invented really as part of a program to overcome nationalism where nationalism is perhaps an excessive attachment to some of those cultural differences that you mentioned the problem with the euro i don't think lies in the cultural differences it lies in the lack of a.